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Name: Roy Villacrusis Title: Executive chef Age: 36 Phone: 561-632-7385 Email: info@royvillacrusis Website: royvillacrusis.com Food prepared: Asiatic cuisine Background: Waking up to the smell of burning wood from the "dirty kitchen," a place where food was prepared with firewood instead of gas or electricity, is one of many childhood food memories for Roy Villacrusis. There was always a fish or chicken stock simmering on his Philippine grandmother's stove. He watched her daily, as she made homemade Philippine pastries and rice cakes. By the time he was in elementary school, he was butchering pigs. He showed the makings of a longlasting relationship with food,...

Overall Impression: When I heard about a startup gourmet French restaurant that's also affordable, I hoped it would be one of those happy discoveries — a cozy jewel with imaginative cuisine and an intimate ambience I'd want to share with friends. Flush...

I happened to be looking up when they flew overhead, a flock of white storks heading south along the Costa Brava, in Catalonia, on Spain's Mediterranean coast. With the rising sun as their compass, they flew in shifting, untidy groups, black-tipped...

I love France -- it is one of Europe's most diverse, tasty, and exciting countries. It brims with the good life and a special appreciation for culture, music, art, food, and wine. But Americans can feel pretty dowdy when confronted with the casual...

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My wife, Laurel, and I had laid out an idiosyncratic European itinerary for our trip last fall: to London for theater, to Paris to scout Ernest Hemingway's long-ago haunts, to Friedrichshafen, Germany, for the Zeppelin Museum, and finally to Hamburg to...

Despite all the digital travel resources that are now readily available, I'm still a fan of printed references. Although a senior, I'm not a luddite; when I travel, I carry the usual Wi-Fi notebook and smartphone, use Wi-Fi everywhere I stay and I'm...

If you close your eyes at the Sea Harbour Restaurant for just a few moments, you could swear you're in Hong Kong, as servers and customers exchange rapid-fire Cantonese. When you open them, it's as if you've been teleported to the Pearl of the Orient;...

LOS ANGELES -- What happens in Vegas is now splashed across food blogs and foodie Twitter feeds, as the "Sin" in Sin City more often refers to overindulging at a celebrity chef's restaurant than gambling, drinking and cavorting with pole...

Ask a discerning Finn why the world isn't racing to Helsinki to eat, as it has to Copenhagen and Stockholm, and his gut reaction is to blame himself.
"We're incredibly modest," says Sasu Laukkonen, the chef behind the four-year-old Chef &...

13 American Table
451 E. Palmetto Park Road, Boca Raton, 561-409-2061
The owners of nearby Tucci's Pizza, Alberto and Melanie Aletto, have opened this bistro in the former Lilly's New Cuisine.
"We are a New American restaurant featuring local...

Restaurant reviewing isn't unlike taking a photo. It's a snapshot, a moment in time. I go to a restaurant expecting the best, but like any restaurantgoer, I'm sometimes disappointed.
So there we were on a Sunday night at Tongue and Cheek in Miami...

Justin Roberts doesn't think it's all that unusual that he went from being a Montessori preschool teacher to a Grammy-nominated musician. The Chicago-based singer-songwriter wrote intelligent, catchy songs to sing to his young students. Roberts has...